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Park Falls, WI - Authorities said 30 people were checked or treated for carbon monoxide poisoning after a leak occurred at a movie theater in Price County.Park Falls Police Chief Scott Straetz said his department got a call shortly before 10 p.m. Monday because a...

Monroeville, PA - Police believe a 90-year-old man died accidentally after leaving his car running in the attached garage of his home in the Pittsburgh suburbs.Family members tell Monroeville police the man lived alone. They found him inside another part of his home...

Bangor, ME - Maine has seen an unusually high number of carbon monoxide poisonings in the wake of recent snowstorms, including one that sent a Bar Harbor family to the hospital Tuesday.The Northern New England Poison Center recorded 30 cases of exposure to carbon...

Cleveland, OH - A carbon monoxide scare has removed two families from their home at the Neal Terrace apartments on Cleveland's West Side for the second time this week.The Cleveland Fire Department and emergency medics responded Sunday to two households and found...

New York, NY - The freezing, icy weather Monday night was blamed for a carbon monoxide leak that led to the partial evacuation of a building in Washington Heights, and sent at least five people to an area hospital.The FDNY responded to the building at 163rd Street and...

South Lyon, MI - Two people were taken to a hospital Saturday after the South Lyon Fire Department found high levels of carbon monoxide in a home in the 600 block of Kestrel Ridge Drive.The carbon monoxide levels were caused by a leaky furnace.The SLFD says two people...

South Lyon, MI - As a mom and nine girls slept at a home in South Lyon they had no way of knowing they were breathing in poison.The furnace had malfunctioned, and the house was filling with carbon monoxide. The deadly gas is colorless and odorless. The house did not...

Weymouth, MA - Nancy Sheerin says she might not be alive today were it not for a well-timed kiss on the nose.Sheerin, who is in her 70s, was home alone with her 3-year-old golden retriever Reilly during the worst of this week's massive blizzard when she says the dog...

Leominster, MA - Two warehouse workers were taken to the hospital Friday afternoon after officials found them with severely high levels of carbon monoxide in their systems.Leominster Deputy Fire Chief Gary J. Renno said emergency personnel were called to 555 Plastics...

Bristol, PA - A Bristol woman was taken to St. Mary Medical Center in Middletown on Thursday night after carbon monoxide filled her home and forced her family to be evacuated.Sarah Howard, of the 200 block of Cedar Street, was being evaluated for possible carbon...

Cleveland, OH - CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A woman and her two young children were released from a hospital Thursday after being exposed to high levels of carbon monoxide Wednesday night in their West Side apartment.A total of five people, including three children, were...

Coweta, OK - COWETA, Oklahoma - A Coweta family was minutes away from dying, when they realized their home was silently filling with carbon monoxide.Chris and Jennifer Shultz had been sick with headaches and nausea for a few days. Jennifer had even gone to a minor...

Providence, RI - Three family members were sent to the hospital after suffering from what appears to be carbon monoxide poisoning late Tuesday evening.With the intensity of the blizzard along with the severe winds, firefighters said snow drifted and blocked the...

Grant Valley Township, MN - Dispatchers in Beltrami County were swamped with calls after a home exploded in northwestern Minnesota Monday night.The Beltrami County Sheriff's Office says the calls started coming in around 5:35 p.m., reporting a loud explosion and...

Philadelphia, PA - Five people, including two children, were sickened by carbon monoxide poisoning overnight inside a home in Northeast Philadelphia.It happened shortly after 12 a.m. Monday along the 800 block of Sanger Street in the city's Summerdale...